Sugar-serving device



SUGAR SERVING DEVICE Filed May 19, 1926' INVENTOR 5 "l, 4 7 MYRON E//VNEY Patented May 8, 1928.

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f SUGAR-SERVING DEVICE.

v Application led Hay 19,

This invention relatesto improvements in sugar serving devices and `more particularly to a device for dispensing cube or lump sugar; it being the vprincipal object of the b invention to provide a container in which a quantity of lump sugar may be contained in aclean and sanitary manner and which is equipped with mechanism whereby the lumps may be dispensed without necessitatl ing ones reaching into or uncovering the container;k A

More specifically stated, the object of the invention resides in the provision `of a sugar dispensing device embodying `a base on which the sugar container is mounted and which has aV laterally extended `portion forming a4 basininto which thesugar is dei liveredythe container being equipped with acoveri that may be removed foriilling and having a trip lever mounted atone side of the container that may be depressed to effect actuationof certain mechanism within the containerwhereb `from one Ato three cubes of sugar .will e delivered into the basin. i o. f

`Other objects reside in the various details of construction and combination of parts as will hereinafter be described.`

`In accomplishing these objects, I have' provided the improved details of construe-y` tion, the preferredmforms of which are il` lustrated inthe accompanyings, wherein- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a sugar dispensing device embodied by the present invention. y

Figure 2 is a vertical section centrally of the device showing the inclined support on which the sugar is supported, the hand actuated trip and the sugar Vcatch basin formed integral with the base. y

Figure 3 is a vertical section taken on the line 3-3 in Figure 2 showing the plates fixed to the trip shaft operating'through slots in the inclined sugar supporting plate.

Figure 4 is a horizontal section takenon line L -4 in Figure 2.

Referring morein detail to the several views of the drawing- .l designates the base of the idevice which may be of cast or pressed metal, which provides a mounting and also serves as a closure for the lower end of a vertically disposed, cylindrical housing 2; this housing being seated within an annular ange 3 formed on the base plate and has projecting ears 4 1926.` Serial N0. 110,160.

extended through the base and clinchedso as to securely `attach-the housing thereto.

At one side and adjacent lthelower edgeof the housing`2 is `an opening 5 and leading thereto Vis an inclined chute 6 through which the lumps or cubes of sugar are delivered, by meansA presently described, into a catchbasin 7 which is formed as an integral part of the base plate. Y

Fitted securely within the upper end of the housing 2, which is of metal, is a continuing, cylindrical housing 8 of glass through whichxthe vcontents of the device `may be discerned and'iitted removably over the upper end ofthe, glass housing is a cover 9 which has a` small top opening 10 normally closed byga spring retained closure llyas shown in Figure 3. n l y Fixed wit-hin thelowerpcasing 2 is a sugar supportingplate 15. This is inclined downwardly toward that sideyof the casing containing the discharge openin 5 and is provided at a point directly aove the chute 6 with .an opening 16, `as shown in Figures 2 and 4, through .which the sugar lumps are discharged into'the chute. The opening 16 is normally `'closed by a trap door 17 that is swingingly supported bya pair of parallel, verticallyidisposed plates 18 mounted on a shaft 19 thatextendsrevolubly through the housingf2 beneath the inclined plate 15 and which at `one end outside of the casing is equipped with a forwardly extending "lever 20 which may be depressed to" effect rota-` tive movement ofthe shaft whereby the trap door 17 is swung downwardly anda certain number of sugar lumps allowed to drop through the opening 16 into chute 6 and delivered thereby through opening 5 into the catch basin 7. When pressure is removed from the actuating lever 20,'th`e parts are returned to normal position by the tension of a coiled spring 22 that is attached `at its lower end to a bracket 23 fixed within thel casing near the base and attached at its other end to the inner end of one of the plates 18. A stop 24 is extended inwardly from the bracket 23 which is adapted to be engaged by theplate 18 to which the spring is attached to serve as a means for limiting movement in this directionand to position the door 17 within opening 16.

Besides the two vertical plates 18-which support the door`17, there is a plurality of llt) in spaced relation to shaft 19 and all these plates operate through slots Q6 formed in the ase plate 15. These plates are of rocker form and when the shaft 19 is in position at which the'door 17 is closed, the ends of the plates at the. lower Vside of plate 15 extend upwardly into the easing as does the plate 18 shown in'Figu're 2, but when the lever 2() depressed, these plates are rotated with shaft 19 to swing their other ends upwardly to throw the sugar toward the discharge opening 16. At opposite side edges of the door 1( are vertically upstanding wings, or flanges, 30-31 which prevent too many lumps of sugar from rolling into the opening from the sides. One of these wings extends to a greater height than the other, as is indicated by the dotted lines 31 in Figure 2, to prevent lumps from wedging between their up er ends.

Assuming the cljevice to be so constructed, it is used fas follows-zA Y The upper part of the container is filled with cube sugar by removing the top cover 9. Then when itis desired to serve or dispense some of the sugar, the lever 2() is pressed downwardly. This causes shaft 19 to be rotated anddoor 17 to be swung downward 'from opening 16 in the inclined plate 15 and a plurality of lumps of sugar to be discharged into chute 6 and then into basin 7. lVhen the lever 2O is released, the spring 22 returns the parts to normal position. As a. rule two or three lumbs of sugar are delivered with each operation of the lever. If this should be too many, lwhat is not used may he placed back in the container through the opening '10. y Y

The device 'is intended to be made abso lutely tight and fly-proof so that it will keep the sugar in a clean and sanitary condition. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a device for serving lump sugar or the like, a casin having .a discharge opening, an incline( base plate in the Casing provided with an opening communicating with the opening of the Casin and having slots therein, a shaft exten ed revolubly through the casing below the base plate, a plurality of plates iixed to the shaft, a door supported by saidV plates for closing the opening of the base plate, yieldable means norma-ll retaining the door in closed position an means at the outer end of the shaft whereby it may be rotated to move the door to open position and whereby said plates will be swung upwardly through the slots of the base plate to move the sugar toward the discharge opening.

n 2. A device for serving lump sugar, or the like, comprising a base ormed with a catch basin, a casingmounted on the base for con a' discharge taining the sugar and having) asm, an 1nopening adjacent the catch clined plate fixed in the casing for support-V ing the su ar provided with an opening at its lower edge and having a plurality of parallel slots formed therein, a chute for receiving sugar from the lplate Vopening and for delivering it through the Casin Y opening into the catch basin, a shaft exten ing revolubly through the casing below the inclined plate, a plurality of vertically disposed plates fixed to the shaft within the casing and extending through the slots in the inclined plate, l door supported by somev of saidfplates to close the opening in the inclined plate, a spring attached to one of the plates and to the casing for normally retainingthel door in closed position, a lever fixed to the outer end of the shaft whereby it may be rotated to move the door to open position; said plates that are fixed on the shaft being adapted to swing upwardly into the casing when the door is opened to actuate the sugar toward the discharge opening.

MYRON E. KENNEY. 

